[inspectah deck] Check out the avenue, new york, new york the rotten apple We grapple in the streets to stack loot and slip the shackles I'm currently, servin twenty-nine to life Duckin the searchlight, no sleep for like the third night The big life is trife, got the young kids hyped Cops shoot on sight, heat pipe be blowin through the night The land where you ain't fam, there's no pity Similar to chocolate city, ten times gritty Hittin hard, liquor's god, niggaz plottin on the come off And come off, quicker than the clothes on the stripper And slide like she doin up and down the railing Bitch tailing in the range with golden arms smooth sailin The clock's tickin, somebody's on the block snitchin The plot thickens, phones are tapped, cops listen Too hot for prison, plus too cold to hold my girl Cause i married this life and she's my whole world